commonplace

But such incidents have become increasingly commonplace to the point of numbing us.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

Pesticide and herbicide use is commonplace and these chemicals affect the fitness of bees, causing them to die off.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

If vaccination rates keep sinking and outbreaks become commonplace, measles could once again become endemic.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

Such back-to-back financings have become more commonplace in Silicon Valley in the midst of the AI boom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Soon it was commonplace to find the five knitters peacefully gathered in the baby’s room, needles click-clacking away.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Instead, her autobiography hides the real Spark in a tangle of commonplaces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Eliot’s “fragments I have shored against my ruins,” but came too close, for me, to what Saul Bellow’s fictional Herzog called “the commonplaces of the Wasteland outlook.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021

“The Other Side of the Wind” is also, for better and for worse, uncannily prescient—possessed of passions that were rare at the time of its making but eventually became celebrated, then became commonplaces.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2018

His website proclaims his new book, “shattered the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.”

From Washington Times ● Mar. 26, 2018

Any form of reasoning has to start from a set of premises, and in rhetoric those premises are very often commonplaces.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith